The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-13

hands of her male relatives, is the step
Last winter, at legislative hearing
in Pennsylvania. a member asked in
! dignantly: "What more do you women
want2 Haven't you equal advantages
of education and in all the trades and
professions?" mo- was the equally
emphatic reply. ''If a Philadelphia
woman desires to study medicine and
prefers the homeopathic school, can
she have it in her own cityp" NO.
he answered, but I don't
ing is going to open the Hohneman
College to you, unless added quickly as
he himself saw the fallacy OF his own
remark, unless you should thereby
stop its yearly appropriation from the
state"
Yes, gentlemen, that is just it. A
large minority of women have reached
a point where they recognize in the
ballot the key which, by admitting them
to the haven of political equality
with their brothers, will leave
settlement of all the minor but
important questions Of her education
and her social and business position.
In other states the self-respecting
woman is responsible for desire for
the ballot. She must, at least, show
by her demand that she holds herself
the pol itical equal Of man.
Here, the woman who respects her
self and recognizes her duties to God
and humanity, is responsible for the
/ intelligent use of even that limited
franchise which is already hers.
1t always pays to be just, and surely,
when our claim that our country is the
land of the free, shall have been
changed from glittering lie to a
glorious truth by the acknowledgment
| of the now DISTINGUISHED majority of its
citizens, men too will reap benefit of
such grand act of justice in the de-
velopment of the true, free, natural,
womanly woman whom no one has yet
seen. When all the strength which many
of the finest women have had to de-
vote to the battle of their sexes free
dom, can flow into more natural chan
nels, we all hope to live more helpful
and complete lives. 1t is often more
what one is than what one does. The
being more than the doing, which helps
| the world, and in the richer lives of
the free women who are to come, hui
manity may find it salvation. AS
Petrarch said to Laura, 1.-THE sweet
completeness of thy life it was, that
saved my SOUL"
Enlarge thy habitation, oh, women!
Strengthen thy cords and strengthen
Lny Status!
The address was well received and
heartily applauded.
Mrs. D. II. Stone then favored the
audience with a solo, -"Only This"
which was rendered in her usual good
taste.
Mrs. Johns then introduced Miss
Susan B. Anthony, who was received
with round of applause. The follow
ing is a synopsis of her address:
Coming back to Emporia takes me
back twenty years. How well re-
member the day. 1 rode in lumber
wagon, farmer was the driver. George
Francis Train was my companion. We
came from Humboldt to Emporia. We
spoke in the court house; there were
walls "a roof, but no floor. Torches were
setting in the window to give the light.
How well remember the speeches of
| the opponents to the movement. Then
Plumb, Eskridge and others were COM
planning about poor Kansas. They had
been terribly treated. They had had
| the border ruffian, the grasshoppeT,
emissaries, Staunton, Stone, DR..
Brown and the rest. We survive them.
The poor men are good friends now,
| they did the best they knew with
what education and opportunities
| they had. Some who were
younger then, have not improved
so much. They have not learned where
| the mule on the ferry boat, that pulled
back, but, like the boat, the more they
pull back, the faster we go ahead. L
remember the day after the speaking,
we went in wagon to Council Grove,
and from there to Junction City, and
! in like conVeyances all over the state.
But now had a more
cordial welcome. L remember the old
/ log cabins. 1 remember the hard
| struggle the early settlers had. You
who were not here know nothing of the
/ terrible suffering of the. founders of
the great state of Kansas.
At the time 9O7O men went and voted
| to give women who had fought side by
side with them an equal right with the
ballot. / respect, as l always have the
noble 1910. But a little over $4,000 men
voted against it.. the $4,000, were not
willing to give the women voice in
lot mean? Why do we women want to
vote? The old adage they gave us an
inch, we want the ell. We want full
power. Whyp There is no class of
people who are disqualified from the
ballot who is not degraded people.
They are Disseminated against; they
are under paid; they. have no
reason discrimination means deg
radiation. Equal rights means equal
code of moral equality in all things. In
old ante-slavery times many said give
the negro freedom and our work is done.
Wendell Phillips said making the black
man free means nothing without the
ballot. If without the right to vote,
~. 70 qI
without the ballotp Ballot is every
thing. Man talks this way, 1 believe
: it. Disfranchisement Is degradation.
| will present few facts to show what
the ballot has done for the poor work
ing class of the old country. First,
, in old ante-slavery days, slavery IL
England was in bad condition. You
, remember that old book, England
| Glory and Shame" England'S glory was
her emancipation ofslaveryin India. Hel
shame was the condition of her labor
t ing men. In those days they organized
what they called dread riots" II
meant a struggle to get bread. By
| means of those struggles they got bet
3 ter wages. No laws were passed fOl
f the benefit of the poor working class
! es In 1857, in England, a bill was in
( allowing laborers who paid e. yearly
3 | rental, the right to vote. j. Stuar
Mill fathered an amendment to MAXI
n it all persons who paid a yearly rental
. His speeches on the subject were scat
tered all over the country. The amend
3 ment received "a out of about 900 votes
but the original bill was carried. AT tn
same meeting of Parliament
!, bill was introduced providing
for the better education o
: the masses. There was no need of edu
: cation till they had power. From tina
4 day. to this at every session of Pariia
= merlt some measure has been intro
. duced for the benefit of the laborin
I classes. Two years ago bill was intro
y duced TO give suffrage to the farI
: hands. This gave the right to vote t
\ 8 200, 900 more in England. Only Ia
= borers and miners were allowed
q vote prior to the bill being passed
y What the ballot has done in Englan
g for the poor it viii do for women i
= this country. The founders of on
Government following English LAY
only gave suffrage to certain mel
p Each state had its limit, in New Yor
w qualification wa